![]() Load the brush in titanium white and tap it along the wave line. Then use your round bristle brush to paint the splash texture. Paint in a rolling/ dabbing formation on the top of the shadow but don’t completely cover it. Then use a #12 bright brush and titanium white mixed with a little of the shadow color to start forming the top part of the wave. Use either your #4 round brush or #12 bright brush to form a long and narrow shadow area for this wave. Use the same shadow color that you mixed in the previous step for the sea foam. Then, loosely paint wavy, thin lines in between your sea foam for water texture/ reflection. Use the dry brush to blend your sea foam down over the shadow area but don’t completely cover the shadow. You can also add a small amount of the shadow color in your white. Your color may vary because you added a small amount of turquoise into the white. Then repeat this for each of your shadow lines. Paint this just above your shadow line but don’t completely cover the shadow. Then paint in a circular, dabbing formation. Load the small amount of white/turquoise paint on your brush tip. Mix a small amount of turquoise into your white so that this first layer of sea foam is not as bright white. Switch to a #12 bright brush and add some fresh titanium white to your palette. ![]() ![]() Then paint a third or fourth wavy, loose line. Paint your second sea foam edge above the first. You don’t need to load a lot of paint on your brush as this should be very thin. Load that color on the tip of your brush and paint the far edge of the shoreline. Add more white if needed to make it more of a gray color. 1 part brown, 1 part white, 1 part turquoise. You can add a bit more white in there if needed. On your palette, mix about 1 part brown, 1 part titanium white and 1 part turquoise. Next you will paint the shadows of your sea foam. Paint the bottom sand area below your bottom line. Then load your brush in unbleached titanium (you don’t need to rinse the brown off). This is the shore area where the water overlaps the sand. It’s okay if some of the turquoise water color gets blended down in this sand area. Then gently blend some of the sand with the light turquoise bottom area of the shore. Paint the sand area in between your two pencil lines. Mix about 3 parts unbleached titanium and 1 part burnt umber. Load burnt umber and unbleached titanium on your palette. Blend the white with the teal and go down to your top line. Then wipe your brush off and load it into titanium white. Blend the turquoise up into your dark teal color then paint about halfway down the ocean with the turquoise. Then wipe your brush off and load it into just the turquoise. Then go down about an inch and a half to two inches with this “dark teal” color. Try using just the tip of your brush for that horizon line. Start below your horizon line and carefully paint a straight line across the canvas. You will get a really pretty dark teal color. Mix equal amounts of the turquoise and phthalo blue. Load your palette with turquoise blue and phthalo blue. Use a clean, slightly wet, 3/4″ flat wash brush. I made my shoreline go kind of diagonal, however, you can make yours go straight across if you want. The bottom line is the bottom edge of the seafoam. The top line is where the blue will start blending with the sand. There will also be a point where the blue will blend with the sand. I recommend lightly drawing your shoreline with a pencil so you know where to stop painting your “blues” down to the sand color. Try not to get any white at the top of the sky so that it stays a little darker. This will create a “gradient” of the blue that blends to a lighter blue at the bottom.Ĭontinue to blend the blue and the white so the blue is lightest along the horizon and darker at the top. ![]() Paint left and right strokes that gently blend into the blue. Load the tip of your brush in titanium white. ![]() Then wipe off the excess cerulean blue but do not rinse the brush. Paint left and right strokes across the canvas starting at the top and working your way to the mid point of the sky. Next, load your color palette with cerulean blue and titanium white. This does not have to be exact, simply select where your horizon line will be! I recommend that it is above the center point of your canvas so you have more ocean than sky in your painting. Place a tapeline at about 9″ from the bottom of the canvas. Position your canvas in a vertical format. ![]()
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